Remove Five Christian Holidays in Belgium?

The Eponymous Flower ^ | 11/ 10/2010 | Tancred

[0beron]

A "Work Group for Interculturality" from the Belgian Government wants to remove Easter Monday, Pentecost Monday, the Ascension, Assumption and All Saints from the list of National Holidays -- Christimas will remain the only free Christian feast day.

Brussels [kath.net/KAP] A drastic reduction of the holidays in Belgium has been proposed by a "Work Group for Interculturality" of the Belgian government. The current ten feast days will be reduced to five is the "'Work Group's" proposal, said the Belgian media on Tuesday.

[Tax-chick]

“Easter Monday” and “Pentecost Monday” are not Christian religious dates. They’re like “Washington’s Birthday Observed,” which means, “Government employees would call in sick on the Monday if it were a scheduled workday.”

[Jim W N]

Sadness. The joy of the Lord being squelched in the world. Jesus brings joy and light into the world which He made, and the world hates and kills both Him and His joy. Sadness and darkness.

Never in the last 200 years was there a time like this. The world turning its back on its Redeemer, Jesu, Joy of Man's desiring."

God, make us salt and light in the world until you come.

[Jim W N]

Corrected...

Never in the last 2000 years was there a time like this. The world turning its back on its Redeemer, Jesu, Joy of Man's desiring."

[a fool in paradise]

Atheism is becoming the defacto state religion. As these traditions are cast off, we are wise to ask “what are you replacing them with”.

Imported traditions from conquering cultures?

Lavender mafia parades?

Workers socialist paradise parades?

[Jim W N]

“what are you replacing them with”.

God's Word tells us and it's not a pretty picture.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Then, in a year or so, it will be “eliminate Christmas” too. The end goal is to strip European societies of all Christian trappings.

Guess who rushes in to fill the void left by the removal of Christianity? Hint - they are the loving tolerant people who sliced Daniel Pearl’s neck while he was still living.

[agrarianlady]

The Belgians won’t like this. They like to loaf.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The reason why they want to eliminate Christianity is because it’s the religion of White Europeans, who they hate.

[The Ignorant Fisherman]

All eradication of Christian life and fundamental true biblical Christianity is the goal of Lucifer. For those who believe it is where we are heading. Read - Revelation 13 and 17:13-14 if you choose to find the answers to what will be. The Good news OUT OF ALL THIS is found in Revelation 19:11-21!!

Even so Come LORD JESUS!

[SES1066]

in 1914 as the First World War was starting, the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Edward Grey, is credited with this statement; "The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our time." Now 96 years later, it appears to me that Europe is relinquishing centuries of tradition and culture in a suicide pact of multi-culturalism.

[John Locke]

This book is one every Freeper should read.

The quote that says it all:

"Liberalism is the ideology of Western suicide. When once this initial and final sentence is understood, everything about liberalism — the beliefs, emotions and values associated with it, the nature of its enchantment, its practical record, its future — falls into place.”

[0beron]

Thanks for that quote. I’ve never seen it before but it’s something about Europe I’ve often said and thought.

[0beron]

They are, respectively, the first days of the octave of those Feasts and were celebrated in most Catholic places, at least during the Industrial Rev. I was surprised myself to see that Pentecost Monday was also celebrated in Ireland until recent memory.